Happy Easter
Reply With QuoteHappy Easter you Godless heathens.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Happy Easter you Godless heathens.
Easter has been canceled.
Riesstiu, you killed the Easter Bunny? You bastard!
I love being beaten by women - Lorizael
It was involuntary manslaughter (bunnyslaughter?) and I'd do it again!
Do it again involuntarily?
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Thanks!Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
Happy Easter you Godless heathens.
I made sachertorte for the occasion:
Sachertorte
There are many versions of the chocolate icing used to cover a Sachertorte. I find most of them too sweet and prefer to go for a covering of crisp melted chocolate instead. Pure heresy, I might add.
175g dark chocolate, at least 70 per cent cocoa solids (I use Lindt Extreme)
150g butter
150g caster sugar
6 large eggs
140g plain flour
for the glaze:
150g apricot jam - sieved
for the chocolate icing:
250g dark chocolate
60g butter
Set the oven at 180C/gas mark 4. Line the base of a 22cm round cake tin with lightly buttered greaseproof or baking paper. Break the chocolate into a heat-proof bowl and melt it over a pan of boiling water.
Cream the butter and two-thirds of the sugar together till very light and fluffy - something like 8-10 minutes in the food mixer at a moderate speed.
Separate the eggs, then, when (and only when) the sugar and butter are white and fluffy, beat the egg yolks one at a time. Gently stir in the melted chocolate. Add the flour, through a sieve if you wish, stirring carefully but firmly until it is all combined.
Whisk the egg whites till firm, then stir in the remaining 50g of sugar a spoonful at a time. I usually take the whites till they will just about keep their shape, but stop before they are capable of sitting in stiff peaks. Fold them carefully, lightly, into the chocolate mixture. The easiest way to do this is to add a little of the chocolate mixture to the eggs first, then slowly incorporate the rest. It is a job for a gentle hand, and you need to take your time and do it thoroughly.
Scrape the cake mixture into the lined cake tin and bake for about 50 minutes. Test for doneness by inserting a metal skewer into the centre: it should come out moist but without any uncooked cake mixture on it. Run a palette knife around the edge of the cake and turn it upside down on to a cooling rack. Leave to cool.
Melt the apricot jam in a small saucepan. If it has large lumps of fruit then it is traditional to sieve it, so that you can get a thin enough layer on top. Pour over the cake, smoothing over the top and sides.
To make the chocolate frosting, break the chocolate into squares in a heat-proof glass bowl and let it warm over a small saucepan containing simmering water. Don't stir the chocolate, but turn off the heat after a couple of minutes. Stir in the butter in small pieces. Pour the chocolate frosting over the apricot glaze and leave to set.
Whipped cream
No self-respecting Sachertorte would be seen without its accompaniment of perfectly whipped cream.
300ml whipping or double cream
1 tbsp icing sugar
a tiny drop of vanilla extract
Put a metal or glass mixing bowl in the fridge to chill. When it is cool, pour the cream into the bowl and whisk till it starts to thicken. Now work slowly, and stop whisking when the cream starts to feel heavy on the whisk. Stir in the icing sugar and the dash of vanilla extract. Keep thoroughly chilled till needed.
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Silly Westerners. A man can't be raised from the dead until he's dead, and scripture clearly indicates that Jesus was killed at the close of Passover. Which isn't till late April this year. So, by all means enjoy today, but as the second Sunday of Lent, dedicated to St. Gregory Palamas.
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Being the atheist, I have my religious brothers and sisters over for brunch every Easter. Now I wish they would leave.
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"I trust Stuie and all involved." - SlowwHand
"Stuie is right...." - Guynemer
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Thanks, Sloww. Back at ya.Originally posted by SlowwHand
Happy Easter
I made a real easy easter cake yesterday:
5 egg whites
3 dl caster sugar
2 dl grinded scalded almonds
Icing:
5 egg yokes
2.5 dl sour cream
1 dl brown sugar (preferably Muscovado)
Flaked almonds, lightly roasted
Beat the egg whites fiercely, mix (lightly!) with the sugar and almonds. Pour into a shallow round cake pan (the sort where you can separate the bottom from the side) and pop it in the oven for 20-25 minutes on 225 degrees celsius.
Mix the egg yokes, sour cream and sugar in a pot and bring to the boil while whisking. Spread over the cake when it's cooled off. Roast the almonds lightly and sprinkle over.
YumIf you want a icing with more oomph, you could add a dash of Cointreau or some other citrusy liqueur.
I love being beaten by women - Lorizael
I got a chocolate easter egg from my housemate. Nothing from family/friends/workmates/boyfriend. They will feel my chocolate deprived wrath.
Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard Dawkins
Happy Easter
Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila
There is something so very satisfying about gnawing on a solid chocolate Easter bunny. I'm not really a chocolate eater, but once a year, I dig into that Easter basket and ravage that chocolate bunny. Today I am being treated with a Cadbury milk chocolate variety that will probably take me an entire week to finish, but boy is it good!
Happy Easter!
In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams
You ate the poor little thing's ears first, didn't you?
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
I snap the head off so it doesn't suffer when I start eating it.
Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard Dawkins
Happy Easter everyone!
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